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EMISSIONS: Truck CO2 targets: industry reacts to common position of EU member states
- Date: 20-12-18
- Category: EMISSIONS
- Source: ACEA
Europe’s major truck manufacturers take note of the common position on future CO2 standards for heavy-duty vehicles that EU environment ministers adopted at a Council meeting this afternoon
View full storyMACROECONOMICS: German Business Confidence Worsens, Putting Rebound in Doubt
- Date: 18-12-18
- Category: MACROECONOMICS
- Source: Bloomberg
German business sentiment deteriorated further to its lowest level in more than two years as trade tensions and the rising risk of a no-deal Brexit threaten to hamper a meaningful economic rebound from a summer lull.
View full storyAUTO SALES: China vehicle sales to tally 28M in 2018, remain flat next year, CAAM predicts
- Date: 18-12-18
- Category: AUTO SALES
- Source: Auto News China
China's new-vehicle sales will total 28 million in 2018 due to the weak domestic economy, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers predicted. For 2019, the industry trade group expects new light-vehicle sales in China to be unchanged at 23.6 million. Deliveries of new commercial vehicles including buses and trucks will edge up 1 percent to 4.4 million.
View full storyEMISSIONS: European auto industry faces tough CO2 emissions reduction target for 2030
- Date: 17-12-18
- Category: EMISSIONS
- Source: Auto News Europe
BRUSSELS -- Auto industry groups warned that a European Union goal to cut CO2 emissions from cars by 37.5 percent and from vans by 31 percent by 2030 compared to 2021 levels would threaten automotive jobs and consumer choice.
View full storyEMISSIONS: Real-world NOx emissions from remote sensing: An update of the TRUE rating
- Date: 17-12-18
- Category: EMISSIONS
- Source: ICCT
Earlier this year the Real Urban Emissions initiative (TRUE, funded by the FIA Foundation and C40 Cities) completed a project using remote-sensing technology to measure nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from vehicles on the road at several sites in Greater London. The London project built on work we had done to analyze remote-sensing data collected from numerous locations in Europe over the past decade. The first analysis was the basis for the TRUE rating, a simple categorization scheme that rates
View full storyEMISSIONS: 5 takeaways from the COP24 global climate summit
- Date: 17-12-18
- Category: EMISSIONS
- Source: Politico
1. The agreement won't stop climate change Will the rulebook save the planet? No, it won’t. Current climate pledges — if implemented — will limit warming to about 3 degrees Celsius. That's better than doing nothing, but far above what scientists consider safe.
View full storyFUEL CELLS: Senior China Official Urges Shift Toward Fuel-Cell Vehicles
- Date: 17-12-18
- Category: FUEL CELLS
- Source: Bloomberg
After spending billions of dollars in subsidies for lithium-battery electric cars, China should now shift its focus toward developing vehicles using the competing hydrogen fuel-cell technology, a former top official said.
View full storyFUEL CELLS: Researchers use jiggly Jell-O to make powerful new hydrogen fuel catalyst
- Date: 14-12-18
- Category: FUEL CELLS
- Source: Phys.org
A cheap and effective new catalyst developed by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, can generate hydrogen fuel from water just as efficiently as platinum, currently the best—but also most expensive—water-splitting catalyst out there. Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-12-jiggly-jell-o-powerful-hydrogen-fuel.html#jCp
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